European Bird Census Council

EBCC is…

The EBCC is an association under Dutch Law of like-minded expert ornithologists co-operating in a range of ways to improve bird monitoring and atlas work and thereby inform and improve the management and conservation of birds populations in Europe.

EBBA Live Farmland

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New publication on population estimates! Improving national bird population estimates in Europe: insights from comparisons with atlas abundance data.

June 14, 2024

On 13 May 2024, researchers from the EBCC and BirdLife International published a new paper about European bird population estimates. The article can be openly accessed in the journal Bird Conservation International. Population sizes collated in the European Red List of Birds (ERLoB), and the abundances compiled in the European Breeding Bird Atlas 2 are compared at country and continental levels to find ways to improve the process of estimating bird populations in Europe.

EBCC Small Grant Fund for Monitoring 2024. Call for applications.

May 15, 2024

EBCC is inviting new applications to the Small Grant Fund, which aims to support national bird monitoring activities by EBCC partner organisations in low—and middle-income countries in Europe.

EBBA Live Farmland: updating distributions of farmland birds in Europe

May 14, 2024

The publication of the European Breeding Bird Atlas 2 (EBBA2) represented a milestone for European ornithology. Developing a European atlas takes time, and 30 years elapsed between EBBA1 and EBBA2. Updating data on species’ distributions on a more frequent basis and ensuring that they are harmonised across Europe could complement the role of atlases. The European Bird Census Council (EBCC) has started the project EBBA Live, which attempts to fill in this gap of information for as many species as possible. This ambitious project has started with a pilot project on farmland birds, which is called EBBA Live Farmland.

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European Breeding Bird Atlas 2 (EBBA2)

A New European Breeding Bird Atlas EBBA2 is an exciting new challenge for European ornithology providing vital data for conservation. It will document changes in the breeding distribution of all European bird species.

EBBA2 covers 5 years of fieldwork in more than 50 European countries, including the European part of Russia, Caucasus, and Turkey, 2013, and 2017.

https://www.ebba2.info/

PanEuropean Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS)

The main goal of the PanEuropean Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) is to use common birds as indicators of the general state of nature using large-scale and long-term monitoring data on changes in breeding populations across Europe.

See the last update of trends and indicators.

https://pecbms.info/

European Bird Portal (EBP)

The purpose of the European Bird Portal is to establish a European data repository based on aggregated data from online bird recording portals from across Europe.

Mobilizing 100,000 volunteer birdwatchers and 50 million new bird records every year to unravel European-wide spatiotemporal patterns of bird distribution.

https://eurobirdportal.org/